by John Johnson | Jul 15, 2021 | Backyard Poultry, chickens, Videos
It’s snack time for the chickens. We are processing a flat of hood strawberries that we picked up from a local farm. The strawberries will be eaten fresh, turned into home-baked strawberry danish’s, and the rest frozen for use later, but the tops go to the...
by John Johnson | Jul 15, 2021 | Food Forest, Growing Vegetables, Videos
We put in a short row of 10 cucumbers in our backyard against the garage. This is a small space that we have sectioned off from the rest of the area we allow our ducks to roam and forage. Given that we have used so much of our garden for fruit trees and perennials we...
by John Johnson | Jul 15, 2021 | Ducks, Videos
The duck snack for today was an old head of butter lettuce that has started to bolt. As the spring turns to summer we like to feed our welsh harlequin ducks snacks from the garden that we are not going to eat ourselves. Instead of just composting this bolting plant,...
by John Johnson | Jul 15, 2021 | Community Garden, Growing Vegetables, Videos
We were harvesting and drying the sweet onions today grown in the community garden plot. The sweet onions that we grew this year were Walla Walla and Alisa Craigs. Both of these varieties get very large and are excellent for making onions rings and for slicing to...
by John Johnson | Jul 14, 2021 | Food Forest, Videos
Do like to grow artichokes? Consider letting your artichokes go to flower in your food forest garden to help bees and other pollinators. We allow the majority of our artichokes to flower. An artichoke produces huge beautiful purple flowers. Consequently, if you let...
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